Dactylostomum Explained

Dactylostomum is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. It is synonymised with Opedunculata Dwivedi, 1975.^[1]

Species

• Dactylostomum armatum (Dwivedi, 1975) Cribb, 2005^{[1] [2]}
• Dactylostomum caballeroi Martin, 1960^[3]
• Dactylostomum cribbi Gibson, Bray & Langdon, 1990^[4]
• Dactylostomum epinepheli Wang, 1982^[5]
• Dactylostomum gracile Woolcock, 1935
• Dactylostomum griffithsi Bray, 1987^[6]
• Dactylostomum harishii Agrawal & Agarwal, 1988^[7]
• Dactylostomum jhansiensis Agarwal & Agrawal, 1988^[8]
• Dactylostomum kashiensis (Maurya, Agarwal & Singh, 1989) Cribb, 2005^{[9] [2]}
• Dactylostomum longivesiculum Shimazu & Machida, 1985^[10]
• Dactylostomum manteri Ramadan, 1985^[11]
• Dactylostomum nicolli Aken'Ova, Cribb & Bray, 2003^[12]
• Dactylostomum sapani (Dwivedi & Dwivedi, 1982) Cribb, 2005^{[13] [2]}
• Dactylostomum satpali Agrawal & Sharma, 1989^[14]
• Dactylostomum tanegashimense Shimazu & Machida, 1985^[10]
• Dactylostomum vitellosum Manter, 1940^[15]
• Dactylostomum woolcocki Ramadan, 1985^[11]
• Dactylostomum yamagutii Ramadan, 1985^[11]

Species later synonymised with species of Dactylostomum

• Dactylostomum armatum (Dwivedi, 1975) Cribb, 2005^{[1] [2]}
  • Opedunculata armatus Dwivedi, 1975^[1]
• Dactylostomum kashiensis (Maurya, Agarwal & Singh, 1989) Cribb, 2005^{[9] [2]}
  • Opedunculata kashiensis Maurya, Agarwal & Singh, 1989^[9]
• Dactylostomum sapani (Dwivedi & Dwivedi, 1982) Cribb, 2005^{[13] [2]}
  • Opedunculata sapani Dwivedi & Dwivedi, 1982^[13]

Notes and References

1. Dwivedi, M. P. (1975). A new genus of trematode with anus (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) from Sapna Dam, Betul, M. P. In Tiwari, K. & Srivastava, C. (Eds.), Dr. B.S. Chauhan commemoration volume, 1975 (pp. 93–97). Vani Vihar, Orissa, India: Zoological Society of India.
2. Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In Jones, A., Bray, R. & Gibson, D. (Eds.), Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2 (pp. 443–531). London: The Natural History Museum and CABI.
3. Martin, W. E. (1960). Hawaiian helminths. II. Dactylostomum caballeroi n. sp. (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). In Libro Homenaje al Dr Eduardo Caballero y Caballero Jubileo 1930-1960 (pp. 203–205). Mexico City: Instituto Politecnico Nacional Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas.
4. Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A. & Langdon, J. S. (1990). Dactylostomum cribbi n. sp., a new opecoeline digenean from the Australian freshwater fish Gadopsis marmoratus Richardson. Systematic Parasitology, 17(2), 75–80.
5. Wang, P. Q. (1982). Some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Fujian Province, China. Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica, 13, 179–194.
6. Bray, R. A. (1987). Some helminth parasites of marine fishes of south Africa: family Opecoelidae (Digenea). Journal of Natural History, 21(4), 1049–1075.
7. Agrawal, S. C. & Agarwal, G. P. (1988). Dactylostomum harishaii sp. nov. from the intestine of a fresh water eel Mastacembelus armatus (Lac). Indian Journal of Helminthology, 40(1), 44–46.
8. Agarwal, G. P. & Agrawal, S. C. (1988). On a new digenetic trematode, Dactylostomum jhansiensis (family: Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925) n. sp. from the intestine of fresh water eel, Mastacembelus armatus (Lac.). Journal of Scientific Research of the Banaras Hindu University, 38(1), 129–132.
9. Maurya, A. K., Agarwal, G. P. & Singh, S. P. (1989). On a new species of the genus Opedunculata Dwivedi, 1975 from a fresh water fish Mastacembelus armatus (Lacepede) from River Ganga at Varanasi. Journal of Scientific Research of the Banaras Hindu University, 39(1–2), 39–42.
10. Shimazu, T. & Machida, M. (1985). Two new and two known opecoelid trematodes from goatfishes in Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Zoology, 11(1), 1–6.
11. Ramadan, M. M. (1985). On three new species of Dactylostomum Woolcock, (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) from the Red Sea fishes. Japanese Journal of Parasitology, 34(6), 473–478.
12. Aken'Ova, T. O., Cribb, T. H. & Bray, R. A. (2003). A new species of Dactylostomum Woolcock, 1935 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from the goatfish Upeneichthys lineatus (Bloch & Schneider) (Mullidae) in Western Australian waters. Systematic Parasitology, 56(1), 63–68.
13. Dwivedi, M. & Dwivedi, V. (1982). A new trematode parasite Opedunculata sapani n. sp. (Trematode: Opecoelidae) from Sapanadam Betul. Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology, 2(1), 7–9.
14. Agrawal, S. C. & Sharma, S. K. (1989). Dactylostomum satpali sp. nov. from the intestine of a fresh water eel, Mastacembelus armatus (Lac.). Indian Journal of Helminthology, 41 (Supplement), 108–112.
15. Manter, H. W. (1940). Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Galapagos Islands and the neighboring Pacific. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 2, 364–473.